"Friend (Lover)"

Friends of Friends

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Nathan Broadus, who produces under the name Evenings, has just been signed to Friends of Friends. His first single from the upcoming LP Yore, "Friend (Lover)", finds him exploring the hi-fi, sample-happy sheen that FOF’s producers favor. The track does most of its work in the midst of a repetitive sample, but there’s an intricacy to the shifting drum patterns, which show off Broadus’s talent for small-scale manipulation. For proof of his micro-vision, skip to the bridge at 1:45, where an array of alternately spacious and shuffling percussion arrangements in the span of a minute grant the track a breadth that it couldn’t have attained with only a simple, well-chosen sample.